SPECIAL HOCKEY TEAMS FOR SPECIAL PEOPLE!

We are incredibly grateful to Modern Family writer Charles Tatham for his support of the Condors! Recently, Mr. Tatham also sent us an amazing greeting from his good friend, Phil Dunphy (aka Ty Burrell) of Modern Family!

So…heard of this show on TV called Modern Family? Well…..they've heard of us!! HUGE thanks to Phil Dunphy (aka Ty Burrell) and MF writer and Condors fan Charles Tatham for this AMAZING gift! #thisisawesome #whaaaaat?? #phildunphy

The 2017-2018 season saw the addition of an hour of icetime and a new location for our east-end programs! We were thrilled and very grateful to city councilors Tim Tierney and Allan Hubley who together with city staff such as Jo-Ann Davidson along with our Co-Founder and President, Jim Perkins, brought our expansion dream to life!

The additional hour of icetime brought us to a total of 5 PRIME time hours midday Saturdays from October – the end of March! Wow! We love our two homes: Jack Charron arena in Kanata and Earl Armstrong arena in Gloucester. There is something to be said for the old-style arenas…they just feel like home, remind us of what it is to be Canadian and to love hockey for the game it is.

Opening our roster again has also been an exciting result of the additional icetime and this brings us to our milestone announcement: we are officially at 108 players! Wow! And we still have a few spots left on our rosters!

It is amazing that over the course of 10 years we’ve been able to grow from 3 players, a dream, and a steep learning curve to a team of 108! We’ve been able to help plant a team (The Blades, who have spots open on their roster as well) in Cambridge, ON and are working with a new plant in Montreal as well!

And the Condors have never just been a team, we have always been and will always be a family. That’s why when students at Algonquin College came up with our hashtag: #biggerthanhockey, we knew it exactly summed up what the Condors are and aspire always to be…no matter our size.

If you know of someone aged 6yrs and up with an intellectual or an intellectual+physical disability that would prevent them from playing on any other team, put them in touch with us! It is our goal to make special hockey dreams come true!

If there isn’t a special hockey team in your community and you’d be interested in helping one get started, we want to hear from you! We want to see a team in every community across our great nation!

We want to again express our profound gratitude to our AMAZING Head Coaches, countless volunteers, Board of Directors and incredible community and business supporters for enabling us to keep #makinghockeyhappen! And of course, we can’t even begin to thank the Carkner, Turris, Wiercioch, Helmer and Condra families for their generoity and unparalleled kindness towards our players and their families. And, we would be remiss not to thank the very first group of friends who put joined us in putting our hearts and our money together to rent some icetime just to see if this crazy idea would take off. To the first Condors board and volunteers, we will be forever indebted to you for believing in us and putting your time and resources behind that belief! The Condors would not be who we are today without all of you!

We are humbled, incredibly blessed and so proud to share this journey with all of you, our Condors family.

Any player ages 6yrs and up (even if they turn 6 during their first season) with a developmental and/or physical disability severe enough that it would prevent them from playing on any other team.

Any skating ability is welcome! We offer Learn-to-skate right on up through advanced hockey skills!

No matter their ability, each and every player is a full member of the team and is welcome at every Condors event!

Our season runs from Oct 7, 2017 – March 31, 2018 and costs just $350, which includes a pair of hockey socks to keep, the use of two jerseys throughout the season, and the player’s ticket to all our social events (ex. entry to the Christmas party and end of season banquet).

We skate every Saturday from 12-1, 1-2, 2-3pm depending on the grouping. Our arenas are Jack Charron in Kanata and Earl Armstrong in Gloucester. Our placements are not by geographical location ( where a player lives) but by ability, size, and social factors. Placement is decided collaboratively by the Coaches, the parents and when appropriate, the player as well.

Click the “Register a Player” link on the homepage to join us! Come see why we call ourselves the Condors family and so often say that our team is #biggerthanhockey

Please use the form below to sign-up your player(s) for the 2017 Bell Capital Cup!

A few important details:

•Sign-ups must be received by November 30, 2017 at midnight.

•Any players dropping out after November 30, 2017 or who are no-shows during the tournament, will be charged a $10 recovery fee (the Condors have to pay well in advance and we simply cannot afford to register teams only to have players dropping out at the last minute).

We know everyone wants the best for the Condors teams, so we thank-you for your understanding on our new tournament sign-up procedure! Any suggestions and input on our procedures and policies is always welcome – see any Board Member to share your thoughts!